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SpamCop gets gagging order lifted
SpamCop gets gagging order lifted
05/13/2004 10:44 AMTwist in SpamCop versus Spam King lawsuit
Council accused of gagging Web site
Council accused of gagging Web site
12/04/2003 04:53 AMFreedom of speech v defamation
"Sun Bloggers"
"Sun Bloggers"
06/12/2004 08:33 PMWSJ on RNC bl0ggers
WSJ on RNC bl0ggers
08/27/2004 02:15 PMmost of them are on MT or TypePad, so at least we've got *something*
in common
Bloggers at the DNC
Bloggers at the DNC
07/26/2004 12:44 PMBloggers get convention credentials: Does this mean
we've arrived?
A new breed of political observers will be offering volumes of
pointed commentary at this year's political conventions.
But most of these bloggers (short for Web loggers) don't fit the
profile of a traditional journalist on the campaign trail.
[...] For the first time, the Democratic National Convention and
the Republican National Convention will credential a small number of
bloggers to cover their nominating processes. Blogging was in its
infancy during the 2000 campaign.
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"Lifecycle of Bloggers"
"Lifecycle of Bloggers"
06/05/2005 11:45 PMBloggers take on US conventions
Bloggers take on US conventions
07/26/2004 03:33 AMWhile some traditional media are treating US political conventions
with contempt, webloggers are being welcomed.
Bloggers: Not nearly as many as
perceived?
Bloggers: Not nearly as many as
perceived?
03/06/2004 01:54 AMBlogs. Ubiquitous. But how many are there really on the Internet? Not
as many as you may think.
Bloggers aren't journalists... really?
Bloggers aren't journalists... really?
07/20/2004 09:24 PM "journalists sound like a bunch of
insecure cry babies"
Searching for Bloggers Near You
Searching for Bloggers Near You
06/05/2005 11:58 PMJob openings for bl0ggers?
Job openings for bl0ggers?
02/10/2004 02:56 AMI just ran across The Weekly Read, a nice new weblog just launched by
Seed Venture Capital Partners. It is like a business person's version
of Mike Masnick's Techdirt, pointing to what they see as the
interesting hi-tech and business stories of the week. While I don't
think that we are going to see a resurgence of the days of Content is
King, I'm wondering if as businesses weblogs like these become more
ubiquitous, bloggers will be able to find jobs putting them out. I
hope so. There are a lot of good writers out there who could use a
real income....
Convention Bloggers
Convention Bloggers
07/26/2004 05:37 AMConvention Bloggershttp://www.conventionblogger
s.com/DNC 2004 Weblogs: News Aggregator. A community
site for bloggers participating in the DNC, July 26-29. The home page
of this site is now a News Aggregator, showing updates from all the
convention-blogger sites covering the DNC in Boston.
Bloggers have landed at the DNC
Bloggers have landed at the DNC
07/26/2004 08:54 PMBOSTON - This is the medium of the moment in action: Dave Winer, 49,
arriving for his media credentials at...
Bloggers Unblock
Bloggers Unblock
01/22/2004 02:11 AMSo I have had a little bloggers block while being too busy with work
the past too days. Besides, I have Iowa on the brain. I'm posting this
to get me back in the flow. The best strategy for overcoming...
Salon op-ed on DNC bl0ggers
Salon op-ed on DNC bl0ggers
07/29/2004 05:05 AMDanah boyd has adapted her rant about the NYT's dismissal of the DNC
bloggers as "Web diarists" into an op-ed for Salon.
Blogging will not replace traditional journalism, but it presents a
threat to the normative press culture and an opportunity for radical
reporting. Bloggers do place the issue of professionalism under
attack, not by being unprofessional, but by exposing the ways in which
the media operates. As blogging reaches the masses, people are
introduced to information that was not reported because it did not
suit the party line. Bloggers will happily document the power games
that they witness in the press room and will expose future Jayson
Blairs. Bloggers also capture information that the mainstream press
does not yet realize is valuable, which means that ambitious and
digitally minded journalists are constantly scanning the blogs for
information. More and more, journalists are thanking bloggers for new
slants. The competition between journalists and bloggers for readers'
attention results in more diverse and compelling coverage.
Reg Req'd LinkBloggers and Big Media
Bloggers and Big Media
08/05/2004 07:17 PMMark Glaser
reports at
Online Journalism Review that big media companies are "starting to
work with -- instead of against -- the blogosphere." About time.
Bloggers Aren't Press?
Bloggers Aren't Press?
08/06/2004 11:56 PMFree Internet Press Aug 7 2004 4:05AM GMT
Microsoft Bloggers: Who Can Keep Up?
Microsoft Bloggers: Who Can Keep Up?
03/08/2004 11:26 PMWe just updated our ever-expanding list of current and former
Microsoft employees who blog. We are now up to more than 200 Microsoft
blogs on our roster.
8,000 bl0ggers born every day
8,000 bl0ggers born every day
07/13/2004 06:49 AMOf which 2,880 annoy family, and 960 get sued
BloggerCon Bloggers
BloggerCon Bloggers
04/17/2004 08:46 AMJeff Jarvis is making
copious notes about the blogging/journalism session. He types faster
than I can.
[pdf] list of bl0ggers
[pdf] list of bl0ggers
05/24/2004 09:12 AMBuzzMachine has a list of bloggers blogging the conference. Also try
Bloglines....
"Bloggers Unregulated"
"Bloggers Unregulated"
06/07/2004 06:54 PMRight-wing bl0ggers wet themselves over
WMD
Right-wing bl0ggers wet themselves over
WMD
05/18/2004 02:54 AMroundup of news and reactions .. has a good roundup .. Citizen
Smash
lt-smash.us/archives/002897.html#002897
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"The seven-year-old bl0ggers"
"The seven-year-old bl0ggers"
06/15/2004 12:12 AMDrupal for Bloggers
Drupal for Bloggers
06/16/2004 05:17 AMDrupal for Bloggershttp://j
ames.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Drupal_For_BloggersDrupal is a very powerful Open Source
Content Management System (CMS) which can be configured for many
purposes, ranging as a collobrative tool to simple blogging.
The purpose of 'Drupal for bloggers' is develop a customized version
of Drupal which has features that typical
movabletype (MT) bloggers are
used to. This is based on Drupal 4.4.1 so it is pretty stable but it
is not complete. The goal is to develop it to a stage where the
default installation is a blogsite, with all the neccessary modules
and hacks to make it user friendly (good enough to replace
movabletype) at the sametime not touching any core drupal system so
you can still use all the wonderful drupal plugins.
You can
take a try out the system before you use by clicking
here.
Qualified Bloggers
Qualified Bloggers
06/05/2005 11:27 PM The issue of blogging as journalism is being attacked on all sides
this morning. First, a Pew/BuzzMetrics study says blogs aren't that
influential. Mitch Ratcliffe subsequently points out the flaw in the
study itself, paying attention to word count...
Democrats welcome bl0ggers
Democrats welcome bl0ggers
06/22/2004 09:06 AMglobetechnology.com Jun 22 2004 12:59PM GMT
why won't netflix help out bl0ggers?
why won't netflix help out bl0ggers?
06/25/2004 03:15 PMif you're lucky enough to have fans or enthusiasts, you should indulge
them
Being friends with bl0ggers
Being friends with bl0ggers
07/01/2004 07:11 AM
It's hard for me to have friends who have blogs. Eventually the
flamers go after them, and when that happens, either by their choice
or mine, we end up not being friends. It's really bad for me, because
as my fame grows, more people who know me outside of blogging also
know me as a blogger.
The nasty folk go after my friends, or people I work with.
Sometimes the friends don't even know they're being asked to do
something that's going to hurt me. Anyway, all this is very
complicated, but since I usually try to share my epiphanies about
blogging, I thought I should share this one too. Basically, I think
what it says is that friendships that evolve on the Web aren't very
strong relationships, and it's easy to separate friends, if that's
your goal.
Maybe we're entering a new era, maybe a new bubble has burst.
Perhaps if Bill Gates gets his blog going then I won't be the fattest
target around, maybe things will return to some kind of normalcy.
Then it struck me, isn't this like the Michael Moore situation.
The war is bad, Bush is a bad president, probably the worst of our
lives. I've heard about the seven minutes of video of Bush paralyzed
after the second plane hit the WTC on 9/11. Sounds powerful. Even
right-wingers have to admit that a President should be someone who's
mobilized by a crisis, not frozen. Who needs the rest of it. So
often people overstate their case. That's Moore's mistake. That's a
lot of people's mistake. When you overstate, you lose people with
minds. One of the greatest things about my talk about Moore yesterday
is that I heard from right-wingers with minds. What a relief to find
out they're not all like Limbaugh or O'Reilly. Seriously.
So Jeneane Sessum says I'm psychotic. You don't say things like
that about psychotic people in public, if you have a human heart. It
would be cruel. So unless she's really a very bad person, she knows
I'm not actually psychotic (of course I'm not, I function relatively
well, I'm not without struggles, pretty normal stuff, and I have spent
many years in all kinds of therapy, so advising me to get therapy is
silly, I already do it). Sessum overstates her case. If she were
trying to be honest, she'd say "I don't like Dave and I want to hurt
him," and then talk about why she dislikes someone she's never met
who's never done anything to hurt her. See, if we're rational about
this, it very quickly becomes about the attacker, but if we buy into
Moore-like or Limbaugh-like hysteria, the pseudo-fights can last
indefinitely.
I had very high hopes for the blogosphere. Go back to one of
the first pieces I wrote about it in 1995, Bill
ions of Websites. It's almost ridiculously optimistic. "Every new
website begets more websites. If I have one, I want my friend to have
one, so I can point to it. And so they can point to my site. Someday
I'll be able to walk a network of friendships, automatically knowing
that each of us has mutual friends. It'll be cool." It happened. For a
while.
Now, maybe getting to the point where I disclaim friendship in
this space, maybe that will open the door for a new kind of
friendship. One that can sustain the attacks. I don't know, it
sometimes works that way. When you finally let go, really let go,
sometimes the parachute opens. Maybe that's what will happen.
NY Bloggers event
NY Bloggers event
05/03/2004 03:13 PMIf you're in New York City, be sure to swing by the Apple Store in
SoHo tonight at 6pm for...
One Reason Bloggers Need to Get Out More
One Reason Bloggers Need to Get Out More
05/02/2004 12:30 PMGeorge Packer (Mother Jones): The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged. To see beyond their own
little world and get a sense of what's really going on, journalists
and readers need to get out of their pajamas.
Gmail for Bloggers
Gmail for Bloggers
04/28/2004 10:29 AMBlogger has given Gmail accounts to active blogger users. But if you
didn't get one, don't ask Evan for one. See, the way it works is each
Google employee gets a certain (apparently increasing over time)
number of Gmail invitations they can send to friends and family,
giving them an account. (Important: This only applies to Google
employees, not people who have received accounts from them.)...
which bl0ggers were credentialed
which bl0ggers were credentialed
07/08/2004 02:20 PMand gang .. A list
cyberjournalist.net/news/001461.php
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Bloggers in Iraq
Bloggers in Iraq
04/21/2004 10:06 AMA piece in today's USA Today about the growing weblog community -- in
Iraq.
Fadhil's blog, iraqthemodel.blogspot.com, tells of his life and the
lives of his two brothers. One brother also is a dentist, and the
other is a pediatrician. "We wanted to help bridge the gap, not just
between the U.S. and Iraq, but with the entire Islamic world," says
Ali Fadhil, 34, the pediatrician. "The media is always taking a look
at the bad stuff. We want to show the good progress in Iraq." The
brothers' blog is written with an unusually pro-American viewpoint,
especially coming from three Sunni Muslims. Sunnis — among them,
Saddam Hussein — dominated Iraq's majority Shiite Muslim population
before the war.
(...)There are about 30 Iraqi bloggers in Baghdad, plus a few other
blogs written by Iraqis abroad. Not all share the Fadhil brothers'
optimism. "You have your Fox TV. I am offering a counter response,"
says Faisa Jarrar, whose blog is critical of the U.S. occupation. Her
mixed Sunni-Shiite family began in December with a joint blog,
afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com. Now, each of Jarrar's three sons has
his own blog. Raed, 26, Jarrar's eldest, is studying in Jordan.
Khalid, 21, and Majid, 17, are in Baghdad.
"All of our efforts are more individual efforts, but we have one
common goal, to show the world what is really going on," Majid says.
Link"What bl0ggers are reading"
"What bl0ggers are reading"
07/10/2004 03:20 AMamusing op-en on bl0ggers at the DNC
amusing op-en on bl0ggers at the DNC
08/09/2004 01:14 PMmore insight into the fact that bad journalists are threatened by
blogs
Boston Bloggers
Boston Bloggers
07/23/2004 09:56 AM(This will also be a column in tomorrow's Mercury News.)
A modern national political convention is theater. Candidates are
actors, and delegates are props, with the media serving mostly as
stenographers and, in a few cases, critics.
Next week's
Dem
ocratic convention in Boston will feature a new batch of critics:
bloggers.
For the first time, people who write Weblogs have been accredited as
media representatives. Good.
The main reason this is a useful development -- if not an earthshaking
one (except, needless to say, in the "blogosphere" itself) -- is the
injection of new voices into a process that has become all too
routine. Some political bloggers have become must-read commentators,
as essential in helping us understand the process and its meaning as
any professional journalist working for a traditional media
organization.
Some old-media types have been
harrumphing mightily at the bloggers' incursion, frowning on
the notion that bloggers are journalists in the first place. Wrong
issue. Are book writers journalists? Some are, and some aren't. Ditto
bloggers.
The bloggers won't begin to replace the professional journalists,
whose work I admire and rely on for certain kinds of information. But
if they do their jobs right, the bloggers will bring something
valuable to the mix.
Where Big Journalism remains mostly a lecture, blogging is more a
conversation. The bloggers are individuals, moreover. Some are
experienced political journalists. Many in Boston will be neophytes
when it comes to national politics. All, however, speak with genuine
voices from their blogs -- voices their readers have come to know and
in many cases trust. Blogs are simultaneously immediate, intimate and
subtle.
Due to the very nature of blogging, they'll be reporting from the
edges of our increasingly ubiquitous data networks. I hope they'll
experiment with the tools of this emerging trade. Technology has given
average people new ways to collect and distribute information to
global audiences, and this is an opportunity to show how grassroots
journalism can be created and, crucially, seen in new ways.
There's another collection of potential bloggers in Boston: the
del
egates themselves. I, for one, would love to see the nearly
real-time observations of the people who have been designated as TV
props -- the political activists, big-time contributors and others who
could pierce the scripted phoniness and show us the event's largely
unnoticed nuances. If I spot any such bloggers, I'll link to them on
my own site.
I'll be in Portland, Oregon, next week, speaking at a
conference on open
source technology. Open source is the process in which anyone can view
and modify the source code, or programming instructions, to make
improvements or otherwise tweak it for their own uses.
Bloggers practice a form of open-source communication. The best of
them listen and study. Then they write, and then they listen and study
again, and write some more. We're still learning how it all works, but
I know this: Something new is happening, something we need to watch
closely.
For a list of convention bloggers with links to their sites, see
this CyberJournalist.
net page.Korean Bloggers
Korean Bloggers
06/05/2005 11:34 PM
Thanks to
Jin Ho,
Heewon, Goo
Dong-Eon, Xenix, Qho, Young Wook, and BK for a very interesting dinner
discussion and explaining the Korean blogging scene to me.
Korea is reported by the OECD to have the highest high-speed
Internet penetration of any nation. Korea has an extremely vibrant
gaming, blogging, mobile phone and youth culture scene and I was eager
to find out more about what was going on. I scribbled a bunch of notes
over coffee during the day and over dinner. Please excuse any errors
since I have not been able to fact check everything. If you could
point them out and let me update them, I would appreciate it.
According to articles in the press, there are 5-6 million blogs. These
are not to be confused with hompy. Hompy (a derivative of home page)
are personal home pages with photo albums, guest books, avatars,
background skins, and background music. There are approximately 10
million hompy pages. In a city with a population of 10 million and a
country with a population of 45 million, that's quite impressive.
Companies seem to be making money selling background music and items
for hompy pages. Most of the posts are focused on photos and one line
comments on pages of friends. They are generally closed communities
and are focused more on real-time presence-like communication rather
than diary or dialog.
Cyworld, which sounded like the leader for hompys has a feature
they call "scratch scrap". This allows you to
copy/paste content from other web pages easily to your hompy. On of
the problems that I see with this is that this simple built-in feature
does not provide a link back to the original source. It is rumored
engineers who designed this left and joined Naver, one of the leading
blog companies and created a similar feature for them. Generally
speaking, it sounded like people don't link very much. They are still
mostly plain html and not css + xhtml. There seemed to be some
trackback implementation, but it is not yet as widely used as in the
US or Japan. As far as I could tell, none of the blog systems used any
of the standard APIs, and some had RSS feeds. Blogs and hompys don't
seem to be pinging any pinger sites, which makes them nearly invisible
to the outside world. In addition, many sites block search engine bots
from crawling hompys and blogs.
It appears that one of the biggest problems is that there are
several 800 pound gorilla type portals that remind me of AOL during
it's powerful years. They try to create walled gardens of users. With
millions of bloggers and hompy users in each community, they are
focused more on integrating inside of their portals than open
standards or linking across portals. There are some independent blog
services and aggregators, but they still seem to be focused on
community and somewhat inward facing networks. A not-so-visibile
majority of blogs in Japan and the US are also this way, but the
public facing citizen journalist or pundit-style blogs seem to be very
sparse in Korea.
One of the reasons might be due to the success of OhmyNews. I
visited OhmyNews as well, and
they are truly an online newspaper powerhouse. You can read about them
in detail in Dan Gillmor's We
the Media, but they are a edited news website with droves of
citizen journalists who submit articles. They have courses in writing
for the citizen journalists, tip jars that people can pay them
through, editors to help with the important stories, lots of influence
and visibility and offline community activities. I can imagine that
someone who had something political or pundit-like to say might easily
choose to write for OhmyNews than to start a blog. This doesn't
describe everything, but I'm sure that OhmyNews has attracted a fair
number of the potential media blogger types.
I still have a lot to learn but the incredible difference in the
blogging scene and the apparent happiness with what the people had
considering the widespread adoption made me wonder if the Korean blogs
would ever look like American or Japanese blogs. (Many aspects of the
Japanese blogging scene seem to be following in the footsteps of the
US blogging scene, albeit with some differences.)
Update:
4- jaz @ June 2, 2005
10:43 AM
hey joi. the function is called "scrap," not "scratch"
what it allows you to do is to display a particular post from
someone's mini-hompy (cyworld) - if the permission setting of that
post is set to "allow scrap" - not from just any website. there's a
watermark-like feature that goes with it, which displays the original
author's name and the link back to the origianl
mini-hompy.
Sorry about the error. I was told however,
that most bloggers and hompyiers didn't cite or link. Someone said
that the big portals encouraged because it allowed all of the content
to be searched inside the portal, rather than offsite. Does anyone
have any more information on this?
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03/13/2003 04:49 PMtake this survey on why you blog .. an interesting blogging survey ..
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